Top 10 Funny Hunting moments~~~!!!

I bet each hunter has his/her moments, here are some of my classic blunders and funnies during my adventures.



10. Stung n Stunned by Giant Queen Vespoid.




09. Playing doctor: trying to stitch back Diablo's tail.



08. Spotted a Khezu choked on herbivore's eggs and died.




07. Troublesome Pair: Till death do us apart 1.




06. Meeting your long lost twins in the Guild Hall.





05. Troublesome Pair: Till death do us apart 2.




04. Fish sex




03. Hunter giving Dental Checkup- OPEN WIDE.





02. Hunter's nightmare. (Blademaster note: LightningRod a dying Plessy just right before it jumps back in the water is a bad idea)

Last but not least. . .

01. D'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH~!!!!

How-to-kill-a Yian Kut ku

A little bored. . . I reckon a little hunting would do me good, to sharpen my skills and test out my new love, the tachi/katana. Hmmm I how about to spice things up a little...yes! Lets hunt for a kutku. . . naked! Muahahhahaaha great!! that will be a challenge indeed.



Right, So there. I removed all my armours, and selected my all time favourite Blade.The Devil Slicer!! yes, my trusty companion that slew many gold ians & silver los. Now it has evolve into a katana class. Sweeeeet~! Though I should use ICE element against the hot-breathed kutkus...

oooh looky here only 17 def. :D

now lets pick a quest... ahhhh how about this one. This should be interesting, kill or capture not one but 2 kutkus. Set! nothing like the odds stacked against you. Kay lets go~!!



The fight is in the misty swamp, couldn't tell whether its night or day as the sun hardly shines in this parts, and its dark & gloomy all year round. I didn't have to travel far, when I saw a shadow descending down at a distance. Ahhh a blue kutku spiecies. . . I draw out DevilSlicer & it was time to dance baby. :D


As always Kutkus will always do the scratching thing, and raise those big fan like ears before trying to peck you to death. This ALSO means that you can land 2-3 free hits on it before it moves.

As usual I go for the vital areas and strike hard... That includes the HEAD, Wings and Tail. By hitting repetitively at these area, one can make him flinch indefinitely.

Not long after a series of brutal slicing & dicing, it fell. . .
Phew, and just in the nick of time too. Just moments later, the red kutku touched down, and it doesn't seem too pleased with me killing off his cousin. XD



Round 2

Right now that we are even, I'm gonna use my wild card, Demondrug!! hehehe that should help even up the odds. I quickly down that bottle while its still doing the scratching ritual.

Well general rule of thumb, always stick to the left (your right) side of Kutku to avoid getting flung around by its tail. Then proceed to whack away at the wings . Once every now and then go for the head if possible, it will be tricky as kutkus are notorious for charging at will without any notice. So don't be greedy, do a 1~2 hit and roll away.
Kutku will rip any hunter apart if you let it, I can't even begin to emphasize don't even stand near the wall, else once u get cornered, be prepare to meet your maker, as it will continuously charge/tail swing at you till you drop dead.


After awhile those big fan-like ears will wither down, this means its about to become worm food, it also means that its ready to become your pet, just bring out the stun trap and tranq bombs!

But alas, I TAKE NO PRISONERS.

myahaha to me "A good Kutku is a DEAD Kutku..."

This Kutku is exhausted so I shall do it a favour and put it into eternal sleep...with a tab on the R button i unleash the charged attack...

BLAM~~!!!! It squeal and shriek in pain as I swing my blade across it, slicing through its webbing like butter on a smoldering hot knife. Blood came gushing out from the open wound like a geyser and with that the huge armoured chicken fell to the earth. Victory was mine.

Wow that was fun... and I hardly break a sweat. . . so whats the moral of the story??!
Well the best weapon in this entire game is not the ZOMG200000per-hi-L33T dmg Sword.

Its knowledge. Use it well.

Art of War

For over a month I've been practicing the fine ways of handling a Tachi/Katana Class ( while slaughtering couple of dozens of kutkus.) and I must say, since then I've have fallen in love with it.

Tachi moves disection.

Basically tachi moves comprises of a overhead slash, midsection jab/thrust, upperslash, Horizontal swipe and a backstep slash.






These are the main moves that can chain devastating combos at a moments notice. . .

combos start by either:

OverheadSlash> Mid thrust > upperslash > horizontalswipe > backstep slash
/\ > O > O > R > /\+O


This can be altered to:

Overhead slash > overhead slash > thrust > upperslash > overhead slash > backstep slash

or

Starts with Thurst > Upperslash > Overhead Slash > thurst > Upperslash > Backstep Slash

Well basically you'll get the picture, mix and match.
Note: a backstep slash is actually an evasive and offensive move in one. It can be used as a combo finisher or a retreating move. Since it swings 180* from left to right in a horizontal motion, its great for that last hit before stepping away from the battle.

while having said that, use this sparingly as timing is crucial, as a wrongly timed backstep often result in painful smack on the face or getting runned over.

Another fun side of the tachi is that hidden move, a very powerful one I might add, each time you successfully hit something, (be it a mosswaine,velocidprey, or a bullfango) the bar on the topleft will fill up.(as shown below) And when that bar is full you'll get a temporary attack up status. . . or aka demonmode.

Once the bar has been filled, one can unleash a evenmore punishing attack.. I named it the RAGED Combo. Basically it is similar to the demonmode of the dualswords but in a more controlled manner.

Crabstick anyone???

Its been like 3 days since my last hunt, my hands been itching for some action. Well little did I know, that is what I'll get. After scrolling through the elders list of quest...I randomly picked a hunting quest. And I've got... Kill or capture Zazami. No idea whats a Zazami, guess I will find out soon.

This time around the hunt takes me to the harsh barren land of the desert. Pop in some rations and Cool Drinks and I'm off. . .


Pretty sight isn't it???? Sand dunes galore. . . ok, move along no time to be sight seeing.

Haha this time around I mange to get hold of an essential hunting/survival item, the *psychoserum*, with this you'll be granted instant autotracker skill for a few seconds, enough to tell you where should you be headed, Hmmm area 5, right lets go.


.Like the previous MHF, The desert is huge, and as u can see like the previous map they made
Area 2 and 5 huge and vast.

Anyway the path led me to an open desert area, it was swimming with chephalos (great, lotsa nuisance just what I need.) Oooooh and what do we have here? A huge oversize Hermit Crab named Zazami, and its using a monoblos skull as it shell.

Righto, the moment I painted Zazami, it immediately charge at me with unstaggering speeds, lifting up one claw ready to give me a good swing. As with any new monsters that I come across, I'd go into an observe mode, basically just letting the monster attack, while I try my best to figure out how to dodge, ultimately looking for openings and weakness of its attack and exploit it.

Ok, so here's what I've observed. Zazami has a wide range of attacks, here's a rough list of it:

• Left/Right Swipe
• Forward shove
• Power clamp (2sec charge)
  
• Backward charge
• Burrowing Attack
• Giant Leap/Stomp
• Water Spit
• Curl up (defensive maneuver)
  
  *Left/Right Swipe, Front shove, and Powerclamp are easily avoided, by either running side ways or rolling thru its legs.
  

Death from below, Zazami burrows into the earth and unleash a series of upward thrust beneath the ground (think Diablos/Monoblos) , and thanks to the huge horn at the end of its ass... any contact by it, and you'll be "flying without wings" followed by a painful bone crushing crash. Ouch.


Backward charge, Zazami has a Monoblos skull/horn at its rear and is not afraid to use it. Stand too close to Zazami's rear, you can bet your gonna get rammed by that massive horn.


Water Spit....kaaaaaaaathuuiiiiii (Beware any contact to the claw while Zazami is executing this move will send you flying in a distance with a good chunk out of your life.) But this is also a perfect opportunity to pummel Zazami's claws...unleash your fury to the claws, legs or the shell at the back.


Giant stomp, Zazami will launch itself high into the sky and then lands painfully back to earth...get caught by this attack, you can be sure you'll be kissing dirt very soon. Watch out for signs when its about to make this move, it will bend its legs and leap high. . . you have about a second to roll out of the way before this huge behemoth comes crashing down on you. Right after the stomp Zazami will stagger to get up, rush in and attack~!!!

Curl up, sometimes Zazami will stop attacking and uses its Large claws to shield itself, causing any attacks to bounce off its tough exoskeleton. Note: a way to counter this is to chuck a Sonic bomb while it is in this state. It will flinch and give you ample time to introduce Mr.Pain to it.


Tip: At the moment I found that stay to the side of Zazami and attacking its legs is the best way to bring him down...also staying too near, too long at the rear of Zazami will cause it to Charge, and the charge animation is pretty quick and hard to avoid if your standing directly behind it.

After about 20mins of fooling around I managed to bring Zazami down...
hmmm gotta work on the time. Anyway Quest Cleared~ Wooohooo!!




Back at Pokke Village. . .
Using the parts I got from Zazami, I made the fullset of it. LOL I look an American football player. Not bad though... hmmm somehow it resembles Metroid Sam's Armour. Oh yeah, from the extra part I made the GiantClaw GS too... now that's what I call a set lol.
The armour gives DEF +20, Thunder resistant -10 and another skill which I don't
know what it means.

Hmmmmmm so its weak against thunder, I'll probably need to forge The Eagle Cleaver...Time for some Khezu farming. Untill the next hunt.